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Last August, we wrote about Natal Vande Casteele's Disable Dashboard Widget, which has one purpose in life: One click, and it kills Dashboard. This week, Natal released the StopDashboard Widget. What's the difference? Disable Dashboard kills the Dashboard from running for good, while StopDashboard retains the ability to restart it with the F12 key.Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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iFelix said 8:41AM on 10-20-2005
What a neat little widget.
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Michael May said 12:01PM on 10-20-2005
QuitDock also does this, and it's been around for a good while now.
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Hee Haw said 1:00PM on 10-20-2005
I don't love Dashboard, don't hate it. Question: even if I have a buttload of RAM, would I notice a speed bump if I turn it off?
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Andrew Witte said 10:19PM on 10-20-2005
Hee Haw: no, especially if you never activate Dashboard. It loads the first time you access it in a given login session. Even after that, if no widgets are active, it should use a bare minimum of memory (and it will get swapped out to disk).
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